None of this has any bearing on whether or not Shaun King is a passionate and effective advocate for his cause, you understand. It's merely
Breitbart's way of making sure he's distracted enough to take a time out and have to write about a part of his life that should be private. He's not
an elected official, he's not a clergyman, and he's sure as hell not someone who should be subject to this kind of a smear.

For my entire life, I have held the cards of my complicated family history very close to my chest. I preferred to keep it that way and deeply resent
that I have been forced to authenticate so many intimate details of my life to prove who I really am. This, in and of itself, is a form of violence.
The same sources who falsely reported my family history—including Breitbart, the Daily Caller, and The Blaze—have also falsely reported that my
wife and I were never in a brutal car accident, that I lied about how many kids we have (we have 5 now, but have had more/less because we've fostered,
adopted, housed many of our nieces and nephews), that I lied about my race to get a scholarship from Oprah, that I lied about how many back surgeries
I’ve had, and more. All of those things were completely and totally false, but have simply been ignored at my expense. I don’t know why this
shocks me, but it does.

They dug up the man's birth certificate. Think about that. These fcks went to all the trouble to actually go and dig up a man's birth certificate so
they could write a story about how that Black Lives Matter guy is a white fraud.

Over the past 72 hours I have been attacked with lies by the conservative media, lies that have been picked up by the traditional media and spread
further. I have kept silent at the advice of friends and mentors, but I will do so no longer.
The reports about my race, about my past, and about the pain I’ve endured are all lies. My mother is a senior citizen. I refuse to speak in detail
about the nature of my mother’s past, or her sexual partners, and I am gravely embarrassed to even be saying this now, but I have been told for most
of my life that the white man on my birth certificate is not my biological father and that my actual biological father is a light-skinned black man.
My mother and I have discussed her affair. She was a young woman in a bad relationship and I have no judgment. This has been my lived reality for
nearly 30 of my 35 years on earth. I am not ashamed of it, or of who I am—never that—but I was advised by my pastor nearly 20 years ago that this
was not a mess of my doing and it was not my responsibility to fix it. All of my siblings and I have different parents. I'm actually not even sure how
many siblings I have. It is horrifying to me that my most personal information, for the most nefarious reasons, has been forced out into the open and
that my private past and pain have been used as jokes and fodder to discredit me and the greater movement for justice in America. I resent that lies
have been reported as truth and that the obviously racist intentions of these attacks have been consistently downplayed at my expense and that of my
family.

No one's denying it's an issue, we're denying that the root of the problem is a black prejudice thing and not something far greater. We're irritated
because the BLM movement is a distraction and division from the real problem, that were we united behind we could actually do something about. All
these little bull# sub causes of a single real cause does nothing but divide the strength needed to deal with the real cause, but whatever.

Addendum: It's just another way to split the people is all. United we stand, divided we fall. I think we've been divided long enough
already.

Possible. Again possible this is a hit piece. Beyond what he does in this movement , beyond media, etc a couple real problems may exist.

Just from one person to another I guess my question would be does the guy listed on the birth certificate know this? If so cool. If not did he spend
time doing what fathers should do under false pretenses? Pretty hard pull to swallow. Don't know about family life, etc.

Here is where a real problem may exist. Because at some point some one some where will get the mom to talk. If he is white has he ever receive any
benefits at the state or federal level filing fraudulent information? Small business loan, setting up charitable organization. Welfare based services?
Don't know. Could be a criminal issue but I am no lawyer. Also does he currently work a job? Again don't know, was it obtained under false
pretenses?. With the organization's he has been involved with did he ever secure funds from businesses or inidividuals under false pretenses? Could
be some legal issues involved in all this.

Like I said, don't know, but people will investigating, someone will get mom to talk. If anything hits the front pages of one of the big 6 news
organizations it's pretty much check mate at that point. We'll see ,unfair target? Repeat? If it's truely a hit piece though and he is a target of
the racist right, why only him? As I understand it the leadership/organizers of blm have quite a few involved, why would he be the target?

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